by Chris Chase, USA TODAY Sports

by Chris Chase, USA TODAY Sports

Jacoby Jones not only took a Super Bowl kickoff to the house, he helped furnish it too.

Because the Baltimore Ravens speedster returned the opening kickoff of the second-half for a touchdown, a Baltimore-area furniture store will give away $600,000 of furniture as part of a pre-game promotion.

Gardiner's Furniture said that anything sold between Jan. 31 and Feb. 3 would be free if a Ravens player returned the opening or second-half kickoff.

"No one was more thrilled and excited then the owners and employees at Gardiners, unless you were one of the 445 people who actually won!" advertising manager of Gardiner's Kasee Lehrl told USA TODAY Sports.

The store has an insurance policy on the deal and is getting good publicity after the fact.

"We were prepared just in case with an insurance policy that covered all our sales for the period of time the promotion ran, which ended up being just shy of $600,000," Lehrl said.

Betting against Jones is a dangerous game. He has seven career touchdown returns and has a knack for big plays. Maybe next time Gardiner's will offer a deal for something that had no chance of happening, like Ray Lewis getting a big tackle or Shannon Sharpe making a coherent point on television.

We hope one of the lucky Gardiner's customers was this guy. He could use a good couch today.